Not all Muslims will adhere to that, and I am not for making it so a workplace has to abide by it.

My point was that if you go strictly by the books, ALL major religions would have issues with a workplace if they adhered to every rule.
So that would be all the more reason no to practice ANY religion.

The thing is, we're not discussing just any religion, but one religion in particular. Apparently in discussing it we are indicting it, which seems to
me an attempt to avoid talking about it. That's my only point.

a reply to: LesMisanthrope
The indictments,imo, were the 'these people need to get out of this country if they want to practice it'. Going far beyond just the work place issue.
They have every right to practice their religion, but yes their workplace doesn't have to cater to it.

I don't mind discussions, but when you start talking about the people as second class citizens, it isn't a discussion anymore.
Or when you willingly turn a blind eye and act like they are the only ones that have the issues.
All religions at sometime or another cause issues in the workplace if someone is to devout IMO.

originally posted by: LesMisanthrope
The thing is, we're not discussing just any religion, but one religion in particular.

Why does it matter WHICH religion we're talking about?

Any religious accommodation we discuss would be about a particular religion, be it a Christmas party for Christianity, Yom Kippur observance for
Judaism or daily prayer for Islam. The Constitution doesn't mention particular religions. They ALL count EQUALLY as religion.

The indictments,imo, were the 'these people need to get out of this country if they want to practice it'. Going far beyond just the work place issue.
They have every right to practice their religion, but yes their workplace doesn't have to cater to it.

I don't mind discussions, but when you start talking about the people as second class citizens, it isn't a discussion anymore.
Or when you willingly turn a blind eye and act like they are the only ones that have the issues.
All religions at sometime or another cause issues in the workplace if someone is to devout IMO.

No one is calling people second class citizens, except for perhaps you. Yes they have every right to practice their religion; no one is arguing that
either.

Except that's NOT how it is supposed to work at all. The system is designed to protect minorities from majorities.

What else do you think things like reasonable accommodation are for? IMO, a Muslim has a right to expect reasonable accommodation. Anyone who works a
certain amount of time is entitled to a break time of a certain length. What a person does with those breaks is their business. A business can and
should be able to use that to accommodate a prayer for an employee. And the employee shouldn't expect to have extra breaks added for the prayer in
addition to the ones already allotted by law.

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